Ask HN: Did you know what average developer salaries are in India?

3 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by naveen99

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7 Comments

shoebham

10 hours ago

The numbers you've provided are typically associated with mass recruiters who hire students fresh from college (most of whom are bad at coding). These companies (Infosys, Tcs etc.) pays peanuts compared to other reputed companies. The number of candidates for these mass recruiters is so high, it often reduces the average salaries.

If you only consider good colleges and good companies, the number would be around

Fresh: $10k - $20k

3-5 YOE: $20 - $35k

>5 YOE - >$35k

naveen99

10 hours ago

What percentage of developers in india do you define to be from good colleges ? 15k IIT grads out of 1.5 million total ? So about top 1% ?

shoebham

8 hours ago

out of 1.5 million most of the students are from tier 2 and tier 3 colleges. The education and opportunities in Tier 2 colleges makes most of the student employable while students from tier 3 colleges are barely employable.

out of 1.5 million only 10% are employable i.e 150k grads [1] Out of that 150k, 50% will be employed by mass recruiters (Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL, Wipro)

You can see more accurate salary points here https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/levels/entry-leve...

[1] https://www.business-standard.com/finance/personal-finance/o...

JojoFatsani

14 hours ago

LLMs will likely put “offshore” out of business.

inquisitor27552

8 hours ago

you can always keep jumping employers if you sense you're being underpaid

god i love our industry